Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts,
0925-7683 ;
v. 6
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Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 6.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction: Reading Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms Laud misc. 108 as a "whole book" -- Part one: the manuscript and its provenance -- Part two: the manuscript and its texts. |
Summary |
The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including "South English Legendary," "Havelok the Dane," and "King Horn" and "Somer Soneday." While critics have traditionally classified these poems by genre, this book returns them to their manuscript context in a comprehensive examination of this vernacular codex. Considering the manuscript as a whole book rather than a. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Laud misc. 108.
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Manuscript (Bodleian Library) |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual.
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Manuscripts.
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English literature -- Middle English -- Manuscripts. |
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English literature -- Middle English. |
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Manuscripts, English (Middle)
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Manuscripts, English (Middle) |
Chronological Term |
1100 - 1500 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
Bell, Kimberly K.
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Couch, Julie Nelson.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Texts and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms. Laud misc. 108. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004192065 (DLC) 2010043091 (OCoLC)671491742 |
ISBN |
9789004192249 (electronic book) |
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9004192247 (electronic book) |
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9789004192065 |
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9004192069 |
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